Saturday, August 27, 2011
Dionne Bromfield + Mark Ronson sing Valerie @ V Festival
We are glad to see that Dionne Bromfield is recovering after the passing of her godmother who launched her career and aided her throughout. This is a lovely little rendition of the Mark Ronson cover of “Valerie” at the V Festival.
Jack's Mannequin - Amy, I
Jack's Mannequin is a side-project of Andrew McMahon, who is the vocalist, pianist and main songwriter of the band Something Corporate. The band is based in Orange County, California. The name Jack’s Mannequin originated from one of McMahon’s songs called Dear Jack, which was written about a friend of his whose brother was diagnosed with childhood leukemia. Andrew himself was diagnosed with leukemia on June 1, 2005 and cancelled a show for the first time ever when he received the call from his doctor.
The initial impulse behind McMahon’s new project Jack’s Mannequin was “Locked Doors”, a song he recorded in December 2003, which he felt was too different from previous Something Corporate material to be one of their songs. He realized that, if he would ever decide to release it, it would be on a solo album rather than a Something Corporate record. The idea seemed to be off the table, until in late summer 2004 both McMahon and his band mates were exhausted from months of touring. They decided to take a temporary break. During his time off, McMahon started writing songs, knowing they would not see the light of day as Something Corporate songs. These songs were a more therapeutic approach McMahon took, and therefore a more personal and intimate testament of his songwriting.
Over the next couple of months, McMahon began recording the newly written songs with producer Jim Wirt, who would play guitar and bass over sampled drum tracks, while McMahon contributed vocals and piano. They later brought in additional musicians such as Bobby Anderson (formerly of River City High) and Tommy Lee to add to the mix.
Friday, August 26, 2011
James Vincent McMorrow covers Adele
James Vincent McMorrow,Irish folk music singer-songwriter, strips back Adele's Somebody Like You to make it his own. Sit back with your coffee/tea this morning, and enjoy.
Minimalist pop from Austin Texas!
Love Inks have just put the finishing touches to a new song called “Be Brave”, listen to it here. Due to be released on September 12th. With a crisp, melodic toddle to singer Sherry’s whimsy, it’s no wonder the NME included Love Inks in their ‘Top 25 New Acts You Need To Hear’ feature.
Love Inks will play a variety of UK dates this September, kick starting their European tour.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Everybody should have some Bob Dylan!
Disc 1
01. Blowin' In The Wind
02. Don't Think Twice, It's Allright
03. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
04. The Times They Are A-Changin'
05. It Ain't Me Babe
06. Subterranean Homesick Blues
07. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
08. She Belongs To Me
09. Mr. Tambourine Man
10. Positively 4th Street
11. Like A Rolling Stone
12. I Want You
13. Rainy Day Woman No. 12 And 35
14. Just Like A Woman
15. All Along The Watchtower
16. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
17. Lay Lady Lay
18. If Not For You
19. I Shall Be Released
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Disc 2
01. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
02. Forever Young
03. Tangled Up In Blue
04. Hurricane
05. Changing Of The Guards
06. Gotta Serve Somebody
07. Every Grain Of Sand
08. Jokerman
09. Emotionally Yours
10. Brownsville Girl
11. Silvio
12. Love Sick
13. Things Have Changed
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Amy Winehouse’s autopsy results say there were no drugs involved!
Amy Winehouse’s autopsy results showed no signs of drug overdose. “Toxicology tests showed there were no illegal substances in Amy Winehouse’s body when she died last month at age 27, her spokesman said Tuesday. In a statement, he added that alcohol was present, but that it could not be determined what part if any it played in her death.”
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011
James Blake + Bon Iver - Fall Creek Boys Choir
The long-awaited “chance meeting” collaboration debuted yesterday on BBC Radio 1. According to an interview with Blake, he and Justin Vernon have a few other tracks in the works, but no additional info has been made available as of yet.
Monday, August 22, 2011
Before they were famous
Jake Gyllenhaal in City Slickers, Jack Black in The Neverending Story III, and 23 other clips of celebs starring in TV and film roles before they were famous.
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Fabulous music for a Sunday morning.
Cocoon is a two-piece French band formed in 2006 by Mark Daumail (born 1984, composition, lead vocals, acoustic guitar, ukelele, banjo, beatbox, etc.) and Morgane Imbeaud (born 1987, vocal harmonies, keyboards, arrangements).
“I wanted it to be a male-female duet. A duo like the White Stripes are in rock — we wanted to be the equivalent in folk music,” Daumail says. Their songs are entirely sung in English.....
Daumail says he’s always been interested in folk music: “Basically, Cocoon’s musical inspiration goes all the way from groups like The Pentangle and Fairport Convention right through to the ‘new folk’ movement that surfaced around the beginning of 2000 with artists like CocoRosie, Devendra Banhart and Sufjan Stevens.”
Cocoon, Debut Album, Where The Oceans End, out via iTunes.
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